Weed garlic

Onions and garlic are allotment essentials in the autumn months. They also serve you well throughout the rest of the season, with the delicious, flavour-packed bulbs, perfect for drying and saving for

Helping you get your best-ever fruit and veg

IT’S easy to imagine the vegetable patch is winding down at this time of year – the tomatoes are ripening, courgettes are piling up, and the first leaves are beginning to yellow. But here’s something

Green manure crops can be grouped into categories, depending on their use. Short-term spring, summer and autumn green manures are quick-growing and rapidly produce lots of foliage. They include plants

Broad beans: Start these seeds now and in a few months time you will be able to enjoy an early harvest. Cauliflowers: Sow early summer types now and place under a cold frame to offer them some protect

Spring cabbage is one of those crops that occupies a handy space in the growing year. It is ready to be picked as small greens in late winter through to early summer as larger crops, when other vegeta